Improvement in horse-powers



idw-ieri taira @anni Gtiijiira DANIEL L. LAMON, 0F BUSTO-N, GEDRGIA.

Letters Patent No. 111,949, dated February 21, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-POWERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent:` and making part ofthe same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL L. LAMoN, of Boston, inthe county of Thomasand State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Improvement inHorse- Powers and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilledin the art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing forming part of'this specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in horse-powersfor driving cotton-gills and other machinery; and consists in thecombination and arrangement t' gear-wheels for multiplying motion byhorse-power, as hereinafter more fully described.

Iny the accompanying drawing- Figure l represents a vertical section ofthe arrangement, taken on the line x a: of iig...2.

Figure 2 is a top or plan View.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the frame-work, hy-.which the gearing is supported.4 Asapplied to driving cotton-gine, (and for some other purposes on thepiantatiom) this frame represents the frame of the gin-house.

B is the gin-floor. I

rIhe horse-power consists of two systems of gearing, one beneath thegiirtloor, to which thel power is applied; the other above the gin-door,from which the motion is taken for driving the giu.

C is a hed-wheel, fixed to the lower door I), through which the shaft Epasses.

The shaft is stepped into the sill-timber F.

G is aspider, which is loose on the shaft, which carries two levers, forattaching the horses or other animals for driving the machinery.

' This spider also carries two bevel pinion-wheels, H H, which mesh intothe bedwheel C, and also into the bevel-wheel I, which .bevel-wheel isfirmly keyed v to the shaft.

J is another hed-wheel on the gin-door, through Y which the shaft Epasses.

K is aspider, which is keyed to the shaft, bearing three (more or less)pinion-wheels, L, which mesh into the bed-wheel J, and also into thebevel-wheel M.

The latter wheel turns loosely on the shaft, and has cogs upon its upperside, as seen in iig. 2.

N is the baud-wheel.

( is the band-wheel shaft.

P is a pinion-wheel on the band-wheel shaft, which meshes into the wheelM.

'A belt is carried from the band-wheel N, for driving the gin.

It will be seen that this horsepower is stationary, and is adaptedespecially for driving cotton-gills.

The motion is multiplied from the first to the second system ofgear-wheels, to give the required velocity to the gn-cylinder.

By means of the intermediate pinion-wheels the strain is so divided andequalized that the breaking of cogs is rendered nearly impossible. v

By the use of two stationary bed-wheels and a single upright shaft thepower is more directly applied, and the motion obtained with lessfriction than with ordinary horse-powers.

Having thus described my invention,

I 'claim `as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combinationand arrangement ofthe bed-wheels O and J, wheels I and M, pinion-wheelsH H, L, and P,`and shaft E, substantially as and for. the purposesherein Shown and described.

Witnesses J. J. HARMAN, JAMES O. ADAMS, J. B. CARROLL.

DANIEL VL. LAMON.

